Tomas Tyml
Fellow
Global Viral
Postgraduate Research: Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Ph.D. (Parasitology), University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Research focus: Protistology, Microbial symbiosis, Parasitology
Other appointments: Visiting Scientist, Joint Genome Institute
Tomas joins Global Viral (GV) as a Fellow working on the Boundaries of Life project in collaboration with the Joint Genome Institute (DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories). He is interested in protists, eukaryotic microorganisms, and particularly on free-living amoeboid protists (FLA) and scattered in several major eukaryotic groups. Currently, he is very interested in enthralled in protist-associated bacteria and viruses and studying interactions between them and their hosts via culturing approach and using cutting-edge methods.
While working on his graduate education, Tomas joined the Institute of Parasitology (Czech Academy of Sciences) involving in a series of research projects under the guidance of professor Iva Dykova. Tomas has worked in the fields of protistology and parasitology ever since. He received his PhD in parasitology from the University of South Bohemia (USB) in the Czech Republic focusing on a diversity of FLA. Before he joined GV, Tomas had continued his studies on FLA at Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) but also on protistan parasites of fish as a member of several expeditions to the High Arctic organised by the Centre for Polar Ecology at USB.
Tomas is proficient in a wide range of techniques, including culturing of various groups of protists and cell lines, staining and other light microscopy-based morphological methods, molecular taxonomy and diagnostics, routine methods of parasitology and transmission electron microscopy.
Selected Publications
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Tyml, T. & Dyková, I. 2017. Phylogeny and taxonomy of new and re-examined strains of Tubulinea (Amoebozoa). Eur. J. Protistol., 61:41–47.
Tyml, T., Lares-Jiménez, L. F., Kostka, M. & Dyková, I. 2016. Neovahlkampfia nana n. sp. strengthening an underrepresented subclade of Tetramitia, Heterolobosea. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 64:173–182.
Kostka, M., Lares-Jiménez, L. F., Tyml, T. & Dyková, I. 2016. Copromyxa laresi n. sp. (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea) and transfer of Cashia limacoides (Page, 1967) to Copromyxa Zopf, 1885. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 64:78–87.
Pizzetti, I., Schulz, F., Tyml, T., Fuchs, B. M., Amann, R., Horn, M. & Fazi, S. 2016. Chlamydial seasonal dynamics and isolation of the “Candidatus Neptunochlamydia vexilliferae” from a Tyrrhenian coastal lake. Environ. Microbiol., 18:2405–2417.
Tyml, T., Skulinová, K., Kavan, J., Ditrich, O., Kostka, M. & Dyková, I. 2016. Heterolobosean amoebae from Arctic and Antarctic extremes: 18 novel strains of Allovahlkampfia, Vahlkampfia and Naegleria. Eur. J. Protistol., 56:119–133.
Tyml, T., Kostka, M., Ditrich, O. & Dyková, I. 2016. Vermistella arctica n. sp. nominates the genus Vermistella as a candidate for taxon with bipolar distribution. J. Eukaryot. Microbiol., 63:210–219.
Dyková, I. & Tyml, T. 2016. Testate amoeba Rhogostoma minus Belar, 1921, associated with nodular gill disease of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). J. Fish Dis., 39:539–546.
Schulz, F., Tyml, T., Pizzetti, I., Dyková, I., Fazi, S., Kostka, M., & Horn, M. 2015. Marine amoebae with cytoplasmic and perinuclear symbionts deeply branching in the Gammaproteobacteria. Sci. Rep., 5:13381.
Kodádková, A., Dyková, I., Tyml, T., Ditrich, O. & Fiala, I. 2014. Myxozoa in high Arctic: Survey on the central part of Svalbard archipelago. Int. J. Parasitol. Parasites Wildl., 3:41–56.
Bartošová-Sojková, P., Hrabcová, M., Pecková, H., Patra, S., Kodádková, A., Jurajda, P., Tyml, T. & Holzer, A. S. 2014. Hidden diversity and evolutionary trends in malacosporean parasites (Cnidaria: Myxozoa) identified using molecular phylogenetics. Int. J. Parasitol., 44:565–577.
Holzer, A. S., Bartošová, P., Pecková, H., Tyml, T., Atkinson, S., Bartholomew, J., Sipos, D., Eszterbauer, E. & Dyková, I. 2012. ‘Who's who’ in renal sphaerosporids (Bivalvulida: Myxozoa) from common carp, Prussian carp and goldfish - molecular identification of cryptic species, blood stages and new members of Sphaerospora sensu stricto. Parasitology, 24:1–15.
Dyková, I., Tyml, T. & Kostka, M. 2011. Xenoma-like formations induced by Soricimyxum fegati (Myxosporea) in three species of shrews (Soricomorpha: Soricidae), including records of new hosts. Folia Parasitol., 58:249–256
Lovy, J., Wright, G. M., Speare, D. J., Tyml, T. & Dyková, I. 2010. Comparative ultrastructure of Langerhans-like cells in spleens of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). J. Morphol., 271:1229–1239
Dyková, I., Tyml, T., Kostka, M. & Pecková, H. 2010. Strains of Uronema marinum (Scuticociliatia) co-isolated with amoebae of the genus Neoparamoeba. Dis. Aquat. Organ., 89:71–77
Dyková, I., Tyml, T., Fiala, I. & Lom, J. 2007. New data on Soricimyxum fegati (Myxozoa) including analysis of its phylogenetic position inferred from the SSU rRNA gene sequence. Folia Parasitol., 54: 272–276